notion that the president is a racist not anything to do with the allegations of obstruction of justice laid out in the mueller probe. but al green, a democrat who pushed this measure defended this effort told me moments ago it s the right thing to do, erin. he told me he is not done pushing in measure. he said that he is not i asked him if he is willing to do it again. he said i don t want to do it again. i hope someone else will do it. but if no one else does it then i will. and under the rules any member can force a vote despite the wishes of nancy pelosi. and al green defied the speaker in pushing forward in this. . and green sees it as a positive development he told me. he is not concerned if the president is portraying this as a big political victory. because he says more and more people are understanding the process. 95 democrats voted for the resolution, more than the amount of democrats voting in 2017 and 2018 for impeachment articles of impeachment at that time 58 in 2017 a
robert mueller s appearance next week. no i think we ll get rid of all this right now. dismissive. get rid of it right now. she did. she wants the focus on the upcoming it testimony and 448 page report. she was victorious in the vote. but tonight s vote did show a growing number of democrats do not like how pelosi is handling impeachment. they are getting restless. and this wing seems intent on ignoring pelosi commands. even though pelosi exists going for impeachment is playing into trump s hands. don t tell anybody i told you this. trump i use his name. okay. trump is goading us to impeach him. that s what he is doing. every single day. he is just like, taunting, taunting, taunting. bus he knows that it would be very divisive in the country. but he doesn t really care. just wants to solidify his base.
just received overwhelming vote against impeachment and that s the end of it. he called it a ridiculous projects. fighting high over the saga over the racist tweets is playing out. the do you think you re winning this political fight? i do think i m winning the political fight. i think i m winning it by a lot. and at least by one measure he is right. because even a majority of democrats voted against impeachment al green ending a round nancy pelosi to force the vote. the resolution to move maid on impeachment because of the tweets, not because of obstruction of justice or anything related to the mueller report. no. the tweets. and this vote highlighted the growing skichl in the democratic party. speaker pelosi making it clear she thinks that this was a big waste of time. do you have any concerns that the focus on impeachment today and the votes on the floor related to it could jeopardize
people had different reasons for getting there. but a heck of a lot more people are getting there as in question on impeachment proceedings, congressman than a year ago or before that. so is she losing support? well, i don t really see this as being something for or against what the speaker, you know, is looking for. we all have to think for ourselves. and particularly on a case like this we have to make our own judgments. i put it this way. support for impeachment inquiry is clearly growing in support. there are many members who did not vote against the tabling motion mo support impeachment. so the number is growing much more than from just 66 to 95. there is is i think significant support for in path. a lawmaker inside the house democrats meeting today told our dana bash that there was discussion on internal polling among democrats. the message was the impeachment thing is not working. there is frustration, frustration with the four
president should be subject to impeachment inquiry. i will say this the position many members took was more nuanced than many think. many of the member like me supporting impeachment inquiry did not vote with did not oppose the tabling motion, because they didn t like this particular approach. and i sort of share that. i think what mr. green. meaning you don t like the going ahead with impeachment for ra racism as the reason. my feeling was this should have been referred to the judiciary committee rather than tabled. but i share the view that many colleagues share that this is not the approach that we should take. i don t think one member using the privileges of the house should impose a set of impeachment articles on everyone else and ask for yes or no vote. having said that, with we don t get to vote with footnotes. we have to vote yes or no, red or green.